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  • Privatising and widening access to justice - Arkin -v- Borchard Lines Ltd and another (No 5) [2004] EWHC 2844 (comm)

    United Kingdom 08.01.2004
    Arkin -v- Borchard Lines Ltd and another (No 5) [2004] EWHC 2844 (comm) Commercial Court, Colman J: 27 November 2003 The Commercial Court declined to award costs against the commercial third-party funder...
  • Arbitration Clauses/Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999

    United Kingdom 15.12.2003
    The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 and enforceability of arbitration clauses on third parties In the first case on the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 the Commercial Court has...
  • Get to grips with ADR

    United Kingdom 28.11.2003
    "Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)". What exactly does this term mean? What does this process actually involve? Find out in the new CMS Guide to ADR. It's written in plain English and provides clear...
  • Trade Finance - duty of care of inspection agency/restitution of funds paid by mistake

    United Kingdom 19.11.2003
    Niru Battery Manufacturing Co & Another –v- Milestone Trading Ltd & Others [2003] EWCA Civ 1446 On 23rd October 2003 the Court of Appeal gave judgment dismissing the appeals of Credit Agricole...
  • Carry on at my convenience: Termination for convenience clauses

    United Kingdom 17.11.2003
    Termination for convenience clauses empower parties, usually employers, to end construction contracts for any reason. They are useful in speculative developments where adverse market movements may make...
  • Advice from lawyers on presentation is not privileged!

    United Kingdom 06.11.2003
    Three Rivers District Council & Others –v- The Governor and Company of the Bank of England [2003] EWHC 2565 As the tale of the Three Rivers winds its way through the courts, another surprising...
  • Mediation rules

    Hungary 30.10.2003
    As of March 2003 Act LV of 2002 on Mediation (the "Act"), came into force. This area has not yet been regulated any time before in Hungary. The scope of the Act is to provide a dispute resolution procedure...
  • Doing Business in Hungary

    HungaryUnited Kingdom 07.10.2003
    1. OVERVIEW Hungary will shortly be an EU member country: together with the other 9 candidates, Hungary signed the Treaty of Accession on 16 April, 2003 in Athens. According to the Treaty of Accession...
  • Lord Chancellor's Department Enforcement Review – next phase

    United Kingdom 29.09.2003
    The first changes to the CPR in the area of enforcement were made in March 2002. Those changes implemented the initial phase of the Lord Chancellor's Department's ("LCD") review of enforcement. Since...
  • Criticism of corruption bill leads to delay

    United Kingdom 27.08.2003
    The Corruption Bill 2003, published earlier this year (click here to view Law-Now dated 10 July 2003) has come under heavy criticism by the Parliamentary Joint Committee appointed to examine the draft...